Solo Exhibition: Avital Sheffer - Art Collector

Clay – with its malleability and transformations, fragility and endurance – is both an elemental medium and a record-keeper of lived experience and culture. Its mysterious and sensual nature and the fact that it is literally grounded suggest a metaphor for human life.

My hand-formed vessels are clad with imagery retrieved and developed from ancient manuscripts that have defied the ravages of time and the impermanence of memory. They speak of a conversation between ancestry and the present.
Avital Sheffer, 2012